Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

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3 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USA or Menlo Park, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$236k - $339k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop the orchestration layer and control plane for large-scale databases.
  • Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs.
  • Build high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions.
  • Tune Postgres to operate at scale for very large datasets.
  • Secure and protect customer data.
  • Design and implement improvements across distributed systems and low-level performance layers.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of industry experience designing, building, and developing large-scale production systems.
  • Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, and fault-tolerant services.
  • Strong understanding of operating-systems concepts including multithreading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
  • Extremely strong computer-science fundamentals.
  • Experience with Java, Python or Ruby, and Go.
  • Experience running and maintaining large Postgres servers.
  • Familiarity with cloud networking, including VPCs, PrivateLink, and peering.
  • Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science is a plus.
  • Deep Postgres expertise, including WAL, extensions, configuration, and replication, is a plus.
  • Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds is a plus.
  • FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience is a plus.
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About Snowflake

10,000+ employees

Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.

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